Protection required

I have recently purchased a QNAP NAS drive, model No. TS653B, which can be used as a standalone unit. It resides on the network/internet. I believe that it has a linux based OS. There is a another vendor's antivirus advertised but I wondered if it can be protected by Trend Micro. I have tried the option to add another device but cannot see this item or sure how to find it. Can you please assist?

Welcome to TM Home users Community, a public site where volunteers try to help each-other , also there are TM Employees that can give answers, I am just a volunteer. If you can see the drives at "Custom Scan" you can scan the drives, but not the whole NAS drive, that is not accessible, because it is as you mentions Linux.

-I'm not a Trend Micro representative, but I like to give you some suggestion-

Hello,nice device! If I remember good there's a built in antivirus in that device, you can turn it on (but I think it is by default) on the web page, Application screen.I suggest you to set rules properly: port forwarding, IP restrictions, protocols., etc.Set also a very strong password to remotly access datas.

Take care that a -disk to remote disk- scan will be terribly slow... anyway it should be possible as suggested by Tom.

We understand that you wish to add protection on a Network based storage.

We would like to apologize but our consumer security programs can only be used on Windows based and Mac OS X based computers that are running with compatible versions. The Trend Micro Security is not compatible with the device that you wish to have the protection on.